Isn't this literally what Ring does?
I mean, maybe you do believe that, but it's a little ridiculous to freak out over something that most people do and are used to. At most, it's an extension of the status quo.
Edit: I suppose it's not that ridiculous if you think most of the world is evil, but I am genuinely curious if you believe that.
If it only obtains the data to provide you the service of knowing who comes in or out, and deletes the data as soon as it’s not needed anymore, there would be no question; but that’s not where profit is in a double-sided market.
"gobbling all the data" is vaguely scary while being totally meaningless. GTM data is fully managed by the client, Google contractually does not randomly spy on it. Many businesses would argue that they do delete user data after they don't need it anymore, but analytics is useful and therefore necessary for a fairly long time (many platforms have natural retention limits, usually a few years). Google themselves deletes user data on their first party products after 18 months by default (referring to things like Web & App activity and Location history) and users can set it as low as 3 months, approximately the same amount of time as security footage.
Edited to correct a number and remove some snark
The moment that someone responded in bad faith was right here.
You know full well that we're talking about the companies that get the data from these devices and what they do with it, not the rubes that these companies trick into buying their stalking products.
You also know full well that ADT is in no way comparable to Google in this discussion given the order of magnitude difference in revenue between the two companies and the extensive integration between the intelligence community and Google.
> Google themselves deletes user data on their first party products after 18 months by default (referring to things like Web & App activity and Location history) and users can set it as low as 3 months, approximately the same amount of time as security footage.
Security footage is not the problem, after all you may want to look back a few days to see who was around at the time something went missing. The problem would be processing footage into data on where each individual goes, storing that and finding various ways to profit off of it. This is not necessary for the core value proposition, and in my opinion is ethically questionable.
Sure, if they don’t store it for long, and especially if they comply with GDPR, that would help. However, I’m not deeply familiar with this, but I suspect they can easily claim that they don’t store data on you and don’t need to delete it simply by storing it in a way not obviously connected to your identity—even if this connection is very easy to make at any point.